Quotes About Loss

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

Home is where the heartache is.

If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.